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The film, Budget Mission to the Moon, is due to air on the National Geographic channel 23 April 23 at 9pm. After eight years of development, Beresheet - which means Genesis in Hebrew - was launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Friday, January 22 on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket Falcon 9. However, scientists at Mission Control in Yehud, Israel were left devastated when things went drastically wrong, with the result that it was completely destroyed as it ploughed into the lunar surface.

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The first sign of trouble came at about 19:21 UTC

National Geographic researchers

Researchers working on the documentary said there was not yet a comprehensive explanation of what had caused the catastrophic failure.

Initially indications suggested a telemetry error resulted in the craft approaching too fast, compounded by an engine/communication failure. 

Describing it as a “snowball of small errors”, they suggested it was “very difficult to point to one thing” which had derailed the mission.

A spokesman added: “The first sign of trouble came at about 19:21 UTC, when flight controllers reported one of Beresheet's inertial measuring units had reset, temporarily shutting off the flow of telemetry. 

Moon BeresheetAn image taken by Beresheet not long before it crashed into the Moon (Image: National Geographic)

“It was unclear if this was related to the engine problem that ultimately doomed the spacecraft.

“Roughly a minute

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